The survivor testified that two individuals on bicycles robbed them at gunpoint. The assailants left their bikes at the scene after the shooting and drove away in the stolen car. Bunn and Hargrave always maintained their innocence.

Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Shawn’Dya Simpson underscored a lack of evidence against Bunn and Hargrave, pointing out that fingerprints taken from the bicycles and the stolen car did not match the defendants’ fingerprints.

“Given the paltry seemingly unreliable evidence used to convict and the evidence that has recently surfaced concerning the corrupt practices of the detectives that investigated this case, the judgement herein is to be vacated,” said Simpson.

Bunn had been out of prison on parole since 2009. The News said he filed a motion to overturn his conviction after Simpson vacated Hargrave’s conviction in April 2015.

The judge highlighted that Scarcella’s “false and misleading practices” led to the decades-long incarceration of five other individuals.